Airmail is not tracked, I just cut this from royal mail website (below). Airsure and International signed for are tracked but are about triple the price.

Miles

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I found a website for Royal Airmail that appears to take tracking numbers. Did you get tracking numbers? I have been getting some spam email telling me my package could not be delivered. I get all excited until I realize it is spam.

Now I'm back in the office I have looked back at the label database, yes yours went with everyone else's by Airmail. We will refund you if it fails to arrive, I would not expect you to be out of pocket in any way.

Just today, I got an email from UPS telling me that my Magpi Magazine reward has been shipped. Around New Year I got a notification from FEDEX that my Cubieboard had been shipped. So far I have not received a similar notification from any shipper for the Eve-alpha. As I mentioned previously, I contributed at the 80 pound level for four radios, plus extra for the case and shipping to the USA. This level was never specifically mentioned in any of the postings. Can you, or someone please verify that a unit was shipped? I bought an extra Raspberry Pi just to have one for this unit. I don't want you to try to piece together something from extra bits and pieces you have laying around, that seems to violate the spirit of this type of funding. If you shipped it and I did not get it, then I will just write this off as a semi expensive lesson.
Thank you.

I'm unsure what draws you to that conclusion. All of that level were sent out "en mass" via Airmail the week of the update. You will see from other peoples posts they have been receiving them. After 28 days we can claim for loss/delay in the post, at that point we can give you a refund or if by chance we have enough parts make you another.

Yes, I have received all of the updates. I am one of the 80 pound investors that were skipped over in the updates. Only when I mentioned something was an " oh yeah" sort of update issued. I still do not have a shipping notification and I do not have an Eve-alpha.

Yes you can use the xbee connector for serial or you could pick up SPI and a GPIO off the header, depends I guess what's best suited, I don't know the device personally but looking on Farnell it looks like bluetack and kaynar would have you physically connected in a few minutes. Would be great if you let us know on the forum how you got on as it's another radio device to share help with.

Hi! Just to clarify: I backed the two radio option (900 & 433MHz) which leaves the Xbee connector free at the bottom for me to add a 2.4GHz radio? Zigbee is a nice-to-have but my main interest is in adding compatibility with Atmel's Lightweight Mesh, for which I guess I'll need a more custom solution (Zigbit module to a serial connection).

Superbacker

I got the dremmel out and did a bit of handywork to incorporate the EVE DC socket into the case. Its no big deal, you just need a drill, hacksaw or dremmel etc to cut the extra slot.
What everyone has to remember is that this is an Alpha Test Product, there are going to be things that dont work and those of us that bought into the kickstarter did so to test, troubleshoot and find issues and then post it in the forums along with any fix you have found or are working on, that way the other 399+ people who are also pushing the Alpha version of EVE to find its weaknesses (and also strengths) and then report and/or fix.
Am so happy mine turned up today, thanks for getting them shipped out so fast! Love it! It arrived with my GPRS shield from Seeed and I have the perfect first project for EVE and my XinoRF, Will keep a build/program log on the EVE forums.
Great job guys!

Superbacker

I made a £50 pledge - £39 for the 2 radio option and £11 for the case. I have just filled in the details but there was nothing there about the case so I submitted anyway guessing that you will know who donated by the amounts as you have just written.
By the way, Thanks for this great opportunity to be part of the Eve - Alpha, cant wait to get the gear and get cracking...

@Mike
I'll have an update going out shortly once finished sending survey's.
Basically i've already got notes for the extra cases, your correct its easy to spot extra £11's
and as there were only 44 out of 400 there was no need to confirm with everyone on the survey's.
Matt

Great project. I'm in! I have been playing with the Raspberry Pi in conjunction with various "mesh" devices since the day it was released. CurrentCost, Homeasy, JeeLabs, Enigma2, Sonos... I found the best software solution till now was Domotiga. I hope I can help with the software. http://tickett.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/more-433mhz-rf-hacking/Lee

hi
just got my raspberry pi in post today,,cant wait to EVE Alpha on it and hack my velux electric windows,,and lost more plans to conrrol with the pi/EVE ,,, here are a few ..outside LED strip lights,,fish pond lights and pump, upload music to my car , start the car to heat it up in winter time in the morning. there is so much you can do if you just think about it
thanks
terry

@CISECO - You're welcome. I really wanted to see this one succeed. My main interest is in industrial test and monitoring. Hopefully, we can squeeze this module and a Pi into the internals of a machine under test and be able to use the on board sensors (and others) to pass data to the radio transmitters which we can then pick up and analyse on other computers.

There's more choice and better prices for USB based GSM dongles than modules so we chose not to put one actually on board and keep the space for where modules cost less than dongles (zwave and enocean). EVE as an overall environment to support GSM, 3G, 4G etc. oh yeah, just try and stop us ;)

great project Miles and is nice finally to see some Europeans projects coming on board hehehhe, i just made my pledge ;-) i hope i gets funded!!! 8 more days to go!!

and just can't wait to get my hands on one of them hehehe but i would like to question and if answered negatively then make a suggestion Miles, have you thought of including a GSM module as well?! even if is as add on feature it would certainly make this card more awesome than already is hehehe!!!

Encouraging but slow progress towards the funding goal since last Friday.

Can I suggest a good quality blog post running through the basic objectives of the project and identifying several specific use cases that might be explored (particularly use cases for software rather than hardware enthusiasts)? Then supporters like myself will have something fresh to post to forums and "tweet" about - helping to push things along in the final week.

To clarify the multiple rewards choices issue raised here I can clarify the process by which Adapteva's Parallella successful Kickstarter project, dealt with the same issue. When the project closed, they sent out a form by email asking backers to confirm their personal details and the rewards chosen. At this point you were able to add items such as carriage and (i think) extra cases, etc I believe this is a standard part of the Kickstarter process.

I hope this helps all those asking this question.

Good luck to Ciseco (who, incidentally, are just a few miles down the road from me!) and I look forward to playing with the kit I have pledged for.